Ghent Caregivers - 126 caregivers found

I am an LPN with 21yrs experience. I have enjoyed working with patients with Alzheimers and Dementia along with intellectual disabilities . I have supervisory experience overseeing Home health aids and have personally seen the struggles for patients and their families in finding good care for their loved ones and the challenges home health aids face. I also have Neurology office experience doing multiple roles as a Nurse and EEg tech and have for learned many strategies to work with patients with Alzheimers and Dementia . I have also had the pleasure of working with patients with Epilepsy, Parkinsons and MS. I have been in the work field since I was 16yrs and my new career path is to be a private duty LPN caregiver where I can work with individuals and their families to make their lifes better with good care and compassion.

I started caregiving for my grandmother who was suffering from dementia. Being a good caregiver requires a lot of patience. I provide that to people in my care and hope to assist them in ways that improve their quality of life. One of my greatest accomplishments as a caregiver was seeing someone recover cognitive ability after switching from nursing home to in home care.

Great communication skills and just a great work ethic all around

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Kind, caring, and patient. Willing to listen and learn. I enjoy history, aviation, and railroads. I watch motorsports and football avidly. I've done companion care for 3 years officially, and was a live-in caretaker for 5 years before that voluntarily. I'm returning to being a Caregiver because I truly miss the time spent helping the elderly and providing them social interaction. I know seeing a younger person be genuinely interested in spending time with them can mean the world to them. I know it lifts burden and worry off their loved one's shoulders knowing someone cares. I enjoy the happiness and joy a break in a monotonous routine I can bring by being there. A fresh person to have a conversation with. To share their life story and interests with. Someone willing to and actively enjoys watching Old TV shows and movies with. That they've not been forgotten. The thing I am proud of moston my life, is fufilling the promise my mother made to my father. That he would not spend his last days in a nursing home. I gave her my word before she passed away in 2017 I would carry on that promise. My father passed away in 2020. Through compassion, love, and a whole lot of patience, he spent his last days in his own home.

I'm very loving, compassion love to help elderly people since I was young.I promise my grandma that I will take care of her and everyone else that gets older I'm my family.And till this day I help everyone I can with joy.

Some of personality traits are I have empathy for others . I have great sense of humor . I have 6 children so I have experience in taking care of others and a lot of patience and I like to see others do well It gives me joy to see others be successful and achieve their goals. I have all skills needed to take care of individual daily living skills . What attracted me to being a caregiver is I am a people person I love helping others especially ones that can't do it on their own . It brings me joy knowing that I helped someone achieve their goals and we can share that experience together . What I enjoy the most is basically the flexibility the connections the smile on one's face . A personal achievement that I am proud of is being a mom and raising my children and my belief in god .

Something that makes me a great caregiver is the fact that I will treat everybody as if I would want someone to treat me if I was in their position also I have a lot of sympathy because I do not have grandparents and I feel as if I'm taking care of somebody else's grandparents the way I would want them to take care of mine. One thing that attracted me to being a caregiver is the genuine love and affection that people give you when they know that they are being properly taken care of.What I enjoy most about being A caregiver is actually being there for somebody and knowing that somebody really depends on on me. one Of my personal achievement was graduating high school and getting my license and becoming a PCA

Dedication, positive mindset, good attitude, compassion, patience and being cooperative makes me a good caregiver. I become a caregiver so that I could learn from it and also that it could be beneficial for my college major. The most that attracted me the most in being a caregiver is knowing that I will be helping others so they could be better.

Hello! My name is Kayleah, and I have been a direct support professional for about 4-5 years now. I truly enjoy and take pride in helping the people that I'm caring for. Being a reliable person who is always there to help when people are in need fuels my drive to excel for my individuals and patients that need my assistance on a daily basis. I enjoy administering meds, cooking, cleaning and assisting with ADLS to make sure my individuals or patients know they have a reliable, caring person to always lean on to get the job done with no excuses!